2008-03-02

Watch as I type!

My keystrokes are currently traveling in plain text across the Thornbrough lab's LAN. This is because I got synergy working again. Previously, I use to compile synergy for my usage. I can no longer since the latest system upgrade. I have discovered, at least, how I can sort-of install things without root in Ubuntu.

Essentially, I use this command:

dpkg -x <packagename>.deb <pathtoinstall>

I generally install local things I built to $HOME/local or $HOME/.local. I am wondering in which cases Ubuntu packages would fail when simply doing `dpkg -x`. I should learn more about how such things work. Now, if only I could SSH from one machine into another for my greater security.

Oh, and isn't it scandalous that classes here still recommend FTP and telnet over SFTP and SSH? I believe it has something to do with Windows OSes only providing the former by default. Nargery.